NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 PCI-Express Scaling @ techPowerUp

TechPowerUp has been doing this test for many years and while it is an interesting experiment with a lot of benchmarks across even more pages you may be wondering "why"?

Well, the tests go along with my Hardware Asylum Multi GPU Index testing that is included with each motherboard.  For the best performance you want to make sure your video card has what it needs to work well.

In looking at the TPU charts you'll see some rather confusing numbers and they all make a really pretty curve and based on your system you can get an rough idea as to what your performance factor may be.

In this article, we investigate how performance of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 is affected when running on constrained PCI-Express bus widths such as x8 or x4. We also test all PCIe speed settings, 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0. One additional test checks how much performance is lost when using the chipset's PCIe x4 slot.

Many of us get hung up on the numbers, we are enthusiasts, that is what we do.  However, for the average user a 5 or even 10 FPS difference in XYZ game at QRT resolution using LMO settings is hardly a reason to say a certain video card is bad.  Or, that running 8x vs 16x is the end of the world.

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